If there were any doubt, when you see a black cop among the locals when our gang is in town to deal with African-American victims dying, you know he's just there to be killed. You know, for pathos. for irony.
Who's to blame for black girls getting killed? Them, apparently, when the investigators let someone say that no-one could fall for the fake business cards of the killer. Yup, that's on the girls, then. Who's to blame when the cops aren't finding the killer? The black preacher, talking to the news media. The writers had the nerve to put that nonsense in the mouth of the (soon to be dead) black cop, of course. The episode is shot through with this stuff. You might say that depth and subtlety are never strong points in CM plots, and you'd certainly be right, but you know, someone could read a script and point this stuff out to them.
Who's to blame for black girls getting killed? Them, apparently, when the investigators let someone say that no-one could fall for the fake business cards of the killer. Yup, that's on the girls, then. Who's to blame when the cops aren't finding the killer? The black preacher, talking to the news media. The writers had the nerve to put that nonsense in the mouth of the (soon to be dead) black cop, of course. The episode is shot through with this stuff. You might say that depth and subtlety are never strong points in CM plots, and you'd certainly be right, but you know, someone could read a script and point this stuff out to them.